Start / Stop / Continue Retrospective

The start / stop / continue retrospective is an action-oriented session that generates immediate practical ideas for improvement. Use it with your team after a cycle of work.

Start / Stop / Continue Retrospective
The retrospective should be a positive, energizing experience for your team. It helps everyone share important feedback, let go of frustrations, and work together to ideate improvements in the way of working and mutual understanding. A fruitful retrospective should output a list of things that the team can start doing, changing or removing.

The start / stop / continue retrospective is an action-oriented session that generates immediate practical ideas for improvement. Use it with your team after a cycle of work.

This Interacts template creates a collaborative space with sticky notes, word clouds,  polls, and more to explore the following topics:

  • 🏁 Start: What should we start doing?
  • 🛑 Stop: What should we stop doing?
  • 🏃‍♂️ Continue: What should we continue doing?
  • 🚀 Next steps: What are your ideas for next steps?

How to run this session

  1. Sign in to Interacts and create a new session.
  2. Scroll down and choose the Start / Stop retrospective template.
  3. You will notice a pre-populated session setup with all the relevant prompts.
  4. Add, edit, or remove prompts at your discretion.
  5. Click Save session, and that's it. You're ready to go.
    The Start / Stop retrospective session usually takes 20 - 40 minutes.